(from the article `turbine`) The best-known machines of this type are the so-called American farm windmills that came into wide use during the 1890s. Such devices consist of a ...
(HAWT) A wind turbine in which the axis of the rotor's rotation is parallel to the wind stream and the ground. All grid-connected commercial wind turbines today are built with a propeller-type rotor on a horizontal axis (i.e. a horizontal main shaft). Most horizontal...
wind turbine whose rotor axis is substantially parallel to the wind flow
(HAWT) a wind turbine whose rotor axis is substantially parallel to the wind flow.
A "normal" wind turbine design, in which the shaft is parallel to the ground, and the blades are perpendicular to the ground
A "normal" wind turbine design, in which the shaft is parallel to the ground, and the blades are perpendicular to the ground.